What are “Ahruf”?
Ahruf translates to “letters,” but actually means “dialects.”
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According to the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN), the Arabic word “Ahruf” means “dialects”. This is actually a deception on the part of Muslims to hide the fact that the Koran is oral and is sung.
Interestingly, I came across this search result:
The reason Ahruf means distortion is because any spelling or meaning that deviates from the original Quran by definition is a distortion.
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The original source was Islamic and has now been deleted by its author. Again, this is to protect the SIN. I believe this Muslim was right to call “ahruf” as “distortion”.
Here’s what Wikipedia has:
According to Islamic tradition, the Quran was revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad by the angel Jibril in seven ahruf translated variously as “styles”, “ways”, “forms” and “modes”. Islamic scholars agree that the ahruf were styles used by the early Muslims to recite the Quran.
Ahruf, Wikipedia
Notice the “recite” – this is a deception of Muslims to again hide the fact that the Koran is oral and is sung. And notice as well, this isn’t dialects, spelling or similar to do with writing.
People sing in many different styles:
Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music, Greek music, Japanese music, and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, ghazal, and popular music styles such as pop, rock, and electronic dance music.
Singing, Wikipedia
People also sing in different pitches as well:
Women are typically divided into three groups: soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto. Men are usually divided into four groups: countertenor, tenor, baritone, and bass. With regard to voices of pre-pubescent children, an eighth term, treble, can be applied.
Singing, Wikipedia
There’s also Falsetto, Muhammad’s favourite.
There are other vocal techniques:
Extended vocal techniques include rapping, screaming, growling, overtones, sliding, falsetto, yodeling, belting, use of vocal fry register, using sound reinforcement systems, among others.
Singing, Wikipedia
There are different speeds of singing:
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for ‘time’; plural ‘tempos’, or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.
Tempo, Wikipedia
Here’s the hadith where it’s most clearly shown that “ahruf” means differences in singing style:
Ubayy b. Ka’b reported:
I was in the mosque when a man entered and prayed and recited (the Qur’in) in a style to which I objected. Then another man entered (the mosque) and recited in a style different from that of his companion. When we had finished the prayer, we all went to Allah’s Messenger and said to him: “This man recited in a style to which I objected, and the other entered and recited in a style different from that of his companion.”
The Messenger of Allah asked them to recite and so they recited, and the Messenger of Allah expressed approval of their affairs (their modes of recitation). and there occurred In my mind a sort of denial which did not occur even during the Days of Ignorance.
When the Messenger of Allah saw how I was affected (by a wrong idea), he struck my chest, whereupon I broke into sweating and felt as though I were looking at Allah with fear.
He (the Holy Prophet) said to me: Ubayy. a message was sent to me to recite the Qur’an in one dialect, and I replied: “Make (things) easy for my people.” It was conveyed to me for the second time that it should be recited in two dialects. I again replied to him: “Make affairs easy for my people.” It was again conveyed to me for the third time to recite in seven dialects. And (I was further told): You have got a seeking for every reply that I sent you, which you should seek from Me. I said: O Allah! forgive my people, forgive my people, and I have deferred the third one for the day on which the entire creation will turn to me, including even Ibrahim (peace be upon him) (for intercession).
Sahih Muslim 820a
As you can see, the men could understand each other but knew that their singing styles were different (Ahruf or distortion). Thus, the “ahruf” isn’t a dialect, it’s a singing style. Ubayy realised that this meant that there was no one consistent singing style, in accord with the oneness of Allah and realised this meant that Allah, Jibril and Muhammad were false. Muhammad saw this and struck Ubayy and made his excuse to cover up the problem of one god, one angel, one messenger and many singing styles. Ubayy then was forced to stay in Islam, when he knew Muhammad was a deceiver, a liar, a false prophet.
Here’s where Muslims confuse “ahruf” with different textual variants:
Allah’s Messenger said, “Gabriel read the Qur’an to me in one way (i.e. dialect) and I continued asking him to read it in different ways till he read it in seven different ways.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 3219
You can do this yourself, by simply singing this hadith at different speeds and tempos. Or you can watch and listen to this video on different singing styles:
After Muhammad’s death, Uthman ordered that the Koran be compiled.
Being alarmed at their difference in reading the Qur’ān he said to ‘Uthmān, “Commander of the faithful, set this people right before they disagree about the Book in the manner of the Jews and the Christians.” ‘Uthmān therefore sent a message to Hafsa asking her to send the sheets to him so that they might make copies of them, after which he would return them to her. Hafsa sent them to ‘Uthmān and he commanded Zaid b. Thābit, ‘Abdallāh b. az-Zubair, Sa’īd b. al-‘Ās and ‘Abdallāh b. al-Hārith b. Hishām who made copies of them. ‘Uthmān gave instructions to the three members of Quraish that when they and Zaid b. Thābit disagreed about anything in the Qur’ān they were to write in the dialect of Quraish, for it came down only in their dialect. They did so, and when they had made several copies of the sheets ‘Uthmān returned the sheets to Hafsa. He then sent a copy of those which they had transcribed to every region, giving orders that every sheet or volume which contained a part of the Qur’ān in different form should be burned. Ibn Shihāb said he was told by Khārija b. Zaid b. Thābit that he heard Zaid b. Thābit say that when they transcribed the Qur’ān he failed to find a verse in al-Ahzāb which he had heard God’s messenger reciting. He therefore sought it and found it with Khuzaima b. Thābit al-Ansārī, “Among the believers are men who have been true to the covenant they made with God” (Qur’ān, 33:23). They then added it to its sūra in the copy of the Qur’ān.
Mishkat al-Masabih 2221
As you can see in the hadith, all the singing styles were destroyed and instead, only the words were written down, with some words only being found in a written form. So, all the “ahruf” (distortions) were destroyed including the various forms that Muhammad sang. This means that the Koran is merely a tool for power for Muslims over Muslims. Thus Allah is imaginary and fictional, an idol.
So what are the 7 modes? Muhammad had to pull that number from somewhere, right? Here’s where:
Aristoxenus was a disciple of Aristotle who flourished in the 4th century BC. He introduced a radically different model for creating scales, and the nature of his scales deviated sharply from his predecessors. His system was based on seven “octave species” named after Greek regions and ethnicities – Dorian, Lydian, etc. This association of the ethnic names with the octave species appears to have preceded Aristoxenus
Musical system of ancient Greece
Who from? From his tutor and father, Waraqa.
Muhammad was a false prophet, for a false god, Allah, for a false religion, Islam, without even a false book, the Koran.
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